I made lots of model ships. Made my mom mad I was always buying them, because they all met the same fate. After a rain, they would be launched up at one end of the drainage ditch, and then I’d run down and my brother and I would wait for it with the BB guns.
You had to shoot high first to get the guns and superstructure. You didn’t want to penetrate the hull or it would sink too quickly, and where is the fun in that?
My oldest brother once spent the better part of an afternoon filing the powder off several boxes of sparklers, and filling the hull of a USS Iowa model with it. Then he glued on the deck, having left one AA gun mount off so there was a hole for a fuse. You should have seen that thing go up in the ditch. It was cool.
Can you imagine what would happen to kids who did that today?
yeah, we loved blowing em up slow as well
not just military models, car models were game too!
and yeah, parents would probably go to jail for allowing their kids to do those sorts of things now a days